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Athletics searching for balance
By Erick Studenlcka
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Hidden among the bock pages
of local papers Iasi week was ihe
news that .Stanford University
was planning to add synchro
nized swimming, lacrosse and
water polo to its women's sports
program
The funding for the three
additional sports would cost
about St million and the expan
sion of the program would give
women 20 additional si holnr
ships. New fields, locker rooms
a n d
coaches’
o f f i c e s
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also be
incltid -
ed in the
upgrade.
S t n n •
ford did
not implement the expansion to
be< nine national contenders in
sym hronized swimming,
lacrosse or water polo.
Instead, the school added the
three sports to reduce the
inequality existing between its
men's and women's athlete pro
grams in the mimlier of scholar
ships and the amount of
resources available to the sepa
rate programs.
"Our goal is to provide a com
plete athletic program with
equal access for all women nl
Stanford.” said Stanford Athlet
ic: Director Ted (.eland. "This
plan clearly makes Stanford a
national leader in gender equi
ty."
"(fonder equity" promises to
affect intercollegiate nthieth
programs across the nation, forc -
ing the programs to reconsider
how men's and women's athlet
ics arc: flinch'd and prioritized
With the University Senate
scheduled to debate a resolution
on gender equity Wednesday,
the issue promises to be a con
troversial topic on campus this
spring This series of articles
will attempt to shed some light
on the issues surrounding gen
der equity and explain how gen
der equity may affec t Oregon
athletic s
The effects of Title IX of the
Education Amendment 1«?2.
whic h guaranteed women the
same educational opportunities
ns men, are in evidence on cam
pus today. Oregon today has 14
intercollegiate sports — seven
eac h for men and women.
Although each program has
seven sports, the amount of
funding and sc holarships avail
able for women remains signifi
cantly less than the totals avail
able for men. At Oregon, 35
1Our goal Is to
provide a complete
athletic program
with equal access
for all women/
— Ted Leland.
Stanford athletic director
percent of th* total number of
intercollegiate athletic st holar
ships belong to women; nation
wide, women receive only 20
percent of the total number of
athletic scholarships available
The cause of the discrepancy
between the scholarship and
funding totals is largely due to
foot Imi11. There is no comparable
women's sport that requires so
many athletic scholarships or
costs so mm h to play And there
is no other sport that generates
as much revenue
Without football in the equa
tion, the discrepancies lietvveen
men's and women's programs
are reduced, with the total
amount of athlete scholarships
available for University students
titling nearly equal
The University Senate will
debate a resolution on gender
equity written by the Intercolie
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The gender equity policy that will i>e d abated by the Uni
versity Senate Wednesday is an unfair stumbling block
to throw in front of the Oregon athletic department,
which is doing a good job of promoting equality in sports.
The University Senate will debate the possibility of adding
another women's athletic team with at least 25 participation
slots within the next five years The Intercollegiate Athletic
Committee says this will ensure more equality between men
and women on campus.
Currently 35 pen ent of the University's athletic scholarships
go to women, well ahead of the 29 pen ent average nationwide.
Steve Mims
tv lius already made nil
effort to showcase women's
sports more than most otti
er universities. Oregon has
also shown equality in
sports by supporting seven
women's athletic teams,
equal to its number of
men's teams.
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sidered the sum ess of women's teams to be equal to that of
men's teams when he fired women's basketball head coach
HI win Heins Heins had won t>r> percent of his games at Ore
gon, but his teams had fallen on hard times lately and Brooks
fired him
This dei ision was esptx tally tough for Brooks because Huiny
was a friend and i oaching comrade, but the athletic director
wanted success in the woman's basketball team and did what
he thought was liest to achieve that
The biggest problem in gender equity at Oregon is the dif
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